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The Incredible And True Story Of How Elvis Presley Became Orion, The Masked Singer
Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February...
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Destined to be a leading light to the world, James Hodges Ellis (born James Hughes Bell, February 26, 1945 – December 12, 1998) was known to his fans as Orion. To others he was Elvis Presley. Ellis appeared with many artists, including Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy...
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The Anne of Cleves Louvre Portrait Got a Makeover
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Are There Still Lepers? The History of Leprosy in 5 Chapters
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
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6 Works by Mexican Muralists You Should Know
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10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp
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Dolly Wilde: The Tragic Story of Oscar Wilde’s Niece
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Woodstock Festival Comics from the 1970s
In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I...
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In October 1970s, the 1969 Woodstock Festival was immortalised in a comic book. The romance story “I Found My Love at the Woodstock Festival!” appeared in Falling in Love #118. Comics and Woodstock were a good match. Charles M. Schulz’s didn’t name the little yellow bird and...
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Adolf Hitler: The Life of One of the Most Reviled & Notorious Humans
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What Was the Lend-Lease Program?
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Historical links between Africa and Armenia (ca. 600-1900)
Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus...
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Travelers, merchants and scholars from Nubia, Ethiopia and Armenia who visited the southern Caucasus and North-eastern Africa.
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How did the Plague of Athens Revolutionize Carthage?
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Ancient Olympics
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Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel
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Choosing a Leader: The First US Presidential Elections (1789-1800)
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
The First Anglo-Burmese War
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The First Anglo-Burmese War
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Mon, 02/19/2024 - 00:00
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The 5 Most Significant Queens and Kings of Jerusalem
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Ode to a Grecian Tour
Seats Still Available
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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‘The Life & Death of States’ and ‘Vienna’ reviews
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 01:00
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Art Basel Miami Beach Faces Protests
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How Many U.S. Presidents Served Two Terms in Office?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
3 weeks ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook.
Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
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‘The Undesirables’ by Sarah Wise review
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Wed, 06/05/2024 - 09:29
TheCollector
Maze-like Exhibition Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Surrealism
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A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
6 months ago
We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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Reclaiming Medusa: How Did She Become a Symbol of Female Empowerment?
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How King Alfred Nearly Lost Everything (But Didn’t)
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A Civil War Vateran Created The Esoteric Fraternity and the Cult of Solar Biology in 1890s ...
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate,...
10 months ago
Some forty miles northeast of Sacramento, north California, off I-80 near the village of Applegate, is the remains of one of the States’s religious cults: the Esoteric Fraternity. Founded in 1887, the Fraternity was a pioneer in modern astrology, readied its followers to run a...
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Mon, 03/11/2024 -...
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‘Sparta and the Commemoration of War’ and ‘The Killing Ground’ review
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Mon, 03/11/2024 - 15:56
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for July
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Nasu, implemented the export of .theme files, and theme...
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A Brief History of the Aboriginal Lands Right Movement
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5 Facts About Ukko, Finland’s Axe-Wielding God of Thunder
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Gladiator Combat
Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Fact or Hollywood Fiction?
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Evelyn Richter’s Street Photography Reveals the Reality of Life in East Germany
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the...
4 months ago
For photographer Evelyn Richter (1930–2021) East Germany was not computers being towed by the bikini-clad proletariat, Western holidaymakers, badly disguised secret police and being on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall. A self-described “documentarian and historian”, Richter...
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The Major Battle of the American Revolution That Never Happened
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Fri, 12/22/2023 - 00:00
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How Accurate Were Aristotle’s Views on Science?
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The Trevi Fountain: Inside the History of Rome’s Iconic Tourist Site
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Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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The First Provenance Research Head at the Met
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Modernism: The Genre Explained in 5 Facts and 14 Artworks
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
10 months ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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What Is the History of Presidents’ Day in the US?
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From Freed Son to Literary Legend: Who Was Horace?
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African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history.
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
a month ago
There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies show up in the selection committees of Stockholm.
TheCollector
How Russia Became the World’s Biggest Country
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‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
a year ago
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe’ by Hilary Davidson review
j.hoare
Tue, 12/12/2023 - 08:59
TheCollector
8 Places to Visit in Vietnam for History Lovers
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3 Inspiring Japanese Women That Made Video Art
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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On the Spot: Penelope J. Corfield
j.hoare
Mon, 12/18/2023 - 10:38
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8 Narrative Film Techniques You Should Know
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What Are Djinn? (Powers, Tales, & Etymology)
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Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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The Kherson Art Museum Identified Pieces Looted by Russia
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Hitler’s Early Life: Failure & Homelessness to Nationalism & Nazis
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History Today Feed
How French Was Medieval England?
How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
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How French Was Medieval England?
JamesHoare
Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:36
Classical Wisdom
The Art of Pompeii
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
5 months ago
Plato, Alexander the Great and more!
TheCollector
Gehenna: A History of Hell on Earth
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Why Is Socrates’s Death Still Discussed?
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November
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over a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Donsol, designed a donsol turnip.
Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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What Are the Most Interesting Facts About Scotland?
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Hell in the Bible: Eternal Damnation vs. Annihilationism
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Philopoemen: The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
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How Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans Conduct Banking?
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Gender Identity & Incidents That Scandalized Shakespeare’s London
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Dreams of Space -...
A Journey to the Moon: A science fiction poem for children (1954)
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary...
a year ago
An unusual children's book consisting of a long poem about Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and an imaginary trip to the Moon. It is highly illustrated and worth a look if you have not seen it. It was colored in places in crayon by a child but that sort of adds to the charm of someone who...
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Vandal Smashes Ai Weiwei Sculpture at Exhibition Opening
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Virgil and the Aeneid
Rome's Greatest Epic
2 weeks ago
Res Obscura
Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Amateur Cryptologist... Suspected Spy?
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
a year ago
The first in a series on the extraordinary lives of the Voyniches
TheCollector
Did the French Revolution Spark Modern Democracy?
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Italian vs. Northern Renaissance Art: What’s the Difference?
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Chicago’s Field Museum Alters Native Displays Due to Regulations
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Dust And Decadence In Weimar Berlin: Gustav Wunderwald’s Paintings Of Another City
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav...
3 months ago
Weimar Berlin wasn’t all cabaret, sex, drugs and lots of fun. The set designer and artist Gustav Wunderwald (1 January 1882 – 24 June 1945) liked to look at the other side of life in Germany’s biggest city. He avoided the decadence and any obvious comment and conspicuous...
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Why Did the Allies Occupy Germany?
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Encaustic Painting: An Ancient Art Form Explained
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A Strange Defeat.
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A failure of understanding in Ukraine.
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Gaius Marius
... and the Fall of the Republic
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... and the Fall of the Republic
Hidden History
The Albuquerque “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Accident
In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at...
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire
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Who Was Julian?
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
a year ago
Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor
TheCollector
History of Potatoes: The Spuds that Make the World Go Round
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World War II’s Unbreakable Code: How Did the Navajo Code Talkers Win the Pacific?
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Plato’s Philebus: What Is False Pleasure?
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Children’s Drawings of Gladiators Discovered in Pompeii
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Possible Rembrandt Found in Attic Sells for $1.4 Million
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New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he...
12 months ago
One day, Jan Wein found some photographs.”For those of you who may not know the back story,” he tells us, “I lived in Manhattan in the 1980s when Ed Koch was mayor, before decamping to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where I remain to this day.At that time you could find many...
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How the Celtic Britons Used the River Thames
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How the Nazis Looted Art in the Netherlands: Dienststelle Mühlmann
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Weekend Roundup
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Lord Balfour’s Portrait Slashed by Pro-Palestine Activists
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What Were the Most Terrible Acts of the British Empire?
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The Impact of Sigmund Freud’s Theories on Art
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How Did George Orwell’s Life Influence his Literature?
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Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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Trying to Understand...
Going to Pieces Slowly...
And then what?
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Gas Mask Photos: An Alternative Mask for the Halloween Season
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to...
2 months ago
The idea of disguise and wearing masks is central to art. From Saul Steinberg’s paper bag masks to those incredible masks of the African phantom, Wladyslaw T. Benda’s living masks and William Mortensen’s haunting portraits from West of Zanzibar, appearances are changed to deceive...
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What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?
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History Today Feed
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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‘The Lost Queen’ by Sophie Shorland review
JamesHoare
Mon, 08/12/2024 - 10:19
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Roadside Relics of the USSR
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer...
2 months ago
We’re back on the road though the former Soviet Union. This time our guide is French photographer Jason Guilbeau whose pointing out objects along the roadside, like tractors stuck atop poles, a pavement that turns into a jet’s trail, a tank on a plinth and more reminders of...
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon With Illustrations by Kay Nielsen, 1914
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for...
8 months ago
Kay Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator best known for his work for Disney, for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations, not least the nightmarish, eerie and delicate Bald Mountain scenes for the animated movie Fantasia (1940). But...
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10 Curious and Strange Laws From Around the World
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Mao Zedong: His Origins & Unlikely Rise to Power
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10 Palazzos (Palaces) in Venice You Must Visit
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Liberalism, Democracy, and Pragmatism in John Dewey’s Philosophy
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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Who Was the First US President To Be Impeached?
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Cinema’s Epic History: From Then to Now
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History Today Feed
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
JamesHoare
Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
8 months ago
‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff review
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Tue, 04/16/2024 - 07:00
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What Is the Message Behind Hip-Hop?
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‘F*ck You, Philadelphia’ – When Blondie Opened For Rush In 1979
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres...
a year ago
When on January 21st, 1979, Rush needed an opening act for the Philadelphia leg of their Hemispheres tour, Blondie got the call. Georgia-based southern rockers Stillwater couldn’t play. So would the New Yorkers deliver what 18,000 fans of the Canadian rockers packed into the...
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Why Is Nan Goldin Considered a Trailblazer in Modern Photography?
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African History...
The pyramids of ancient Nubia and Meroe: death on the Nile and the mortuary architecture of Kush
a complete history of an African monument
a year ago
a complete history of an African monument
Dreams of Space -...
The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space (1952)
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite...
10 months ago
Sorry for the delays in posting, I have been on a short vacation. So today is one of my favorite (and obscure) fictional pop-up books about space. A really beautifully illustrated 1952 book with some amazing text to accompany it, The Jolly Jump-ups Journey Through Space!
Clyne,...
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Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies: The West’s 1st Feminist Text?
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What Was the Warsaw Pact?
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Sea Monsters in Renaissance Maps: Tales From Unknown Waters
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A Collection of...
Collections: Ancient Greek and Phoenician Colonization
Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis...
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Davis senatum consuluit a.d. III Idus Octobris apud aedem Patreontis; de colonis Graecis et Punicis verba fecit… This week we’re taking a brief look, by ACOUP Senate request, at Greek and Phoenician colonization in the ancient Mediterranean. In particular, the focus requested was...
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The Wonder Of Soviet Bus Stops
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone,...
3 months ago
“The bus stops are disappearing so fast. If I come back a year from now, they could be gone, demolished, or rebuilt. These pictures may be all that’s left in the end. I want to give them some kind of immortality.” — Christopher Herwig, Photographer and Soviet Bus Stop Hunter ...
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10 Presidential Elections That Shaped the US Forever
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10 Small but Historic Countries You Didn’t Know About
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Trying to Understand...
Let's Hear It For The "Underlying Causes."
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
a year ago
Here's the answer. What was the question again?
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for October 2024
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
a month ago
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added Rabbit Waves and Logbooks. Updated woodstove installation, no windlass with 1 photo, mini dodger and Victoria to Sitka logbook with Week 3...
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Who Were the Landsknechts?
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Anglo-Afghan Wars: How Afghanistan Became the Graveyard of Empires
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17 Titillating Facts about the History of Tea
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What Are Anton Chekhov’s Most Important Works?
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10 Amazing Facts About Elvis Presley
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
TheCollector
Olafur Eliasson to Turn Urban Billboards into Abstract Art
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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In Search of Homer Trip Opening
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London’s National Portrait Gallery Opens First Francis Bacon Show
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How Did Tropical Fruits Become Commonplace in the USA?
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History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
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‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review
JamesHoare
Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
TheCollector
What Did Christopher Columbus Discover?
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What Criticisms Are Directed Towards Anti-Natalism?
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Who Were the Most Important Christian Figures? (150 – 200 CE)
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Andrew Jackson: The People’s President and the Rise of Populism
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Windows In Time: The New York City Years, 1975 – 1980
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late...
3 months ago
We are delighted to share reader Philip Flip Collier’s photographs of New York City in the late 1970s to 1980. Upon graduating from The New England School of Photography in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, he immediately took to the streets. Here he tell us his story of living in...
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7 Famous Artists Who Turned to Crime
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What Was the Korean Conflict of 1968?
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History Today Feed
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
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Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic?
JamesHoare
Thu, 11/07/2024 - 09:38
Global Inequality...
Sodom and Gomorrah
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there...
10 months ago
Le hasard is a capricious master. When I recently travelled to China, I knew that I would read there books printed in China and about China. So I took none of them with me. The only book that I took there was a book that has nothing to do with China: Proust’s
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Ludwig Wittgenstein vs. Gottlob Frege: Between Logic and Language
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What is Virtue According to Nietzsche?
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How Video Killed the Kamishibai Star
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Res Obscura
On 17th century "cocaine"
A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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A new analysis of mummified brains pushes back the timeline for the globalization of coca
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What Is Solipsism?
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5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder
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Marxism And Literature: 3 Key Ideas
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6 Famous Artists Who Loved Cats
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Journey of the Roman Gladius and Other Swords
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a...
11 months ago
This week I want to do something a little different and discuss the evolution and development of a specific weapon, in this case the famed Roman gladius, the sword of the legions. As we’re going to see, this is going to entail a journey covering quite a bit of both time and space...
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American Photographs: A Journey Down The Blue Highways, 1970s
You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In...
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You see, I’ve been through The desert on a horse with no name It felt good to be out of the rain In the desert you can remember your name ‘Cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain – America, A Horse With No Name We don’t know where British … Continue reading "American...
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7 Famous Surrealist Artists Who Achieved Greatness
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News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
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Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World
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Capturing Alaska: Who Are 6 of Alaska’s Most Celebrated Painters?
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Wrong Side of...
The Phantom of Polarisation
Do people actually disagree that much?
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Hungary in WWII: A Lesser Axis Power
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Rococo Art & Architecture: Definition, Characteristics, Artists
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Polyphemus: Who Was the Cyclops That Was Tricked by Odysseus?
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10 Essential Films to Watch to Understand Surrealist Cinema
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10 Oldest National Parks in the United States
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What Are the Strengths of Determinism?
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The Two Trojan Wars
Secret Origins
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Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus?
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$35 Million Monet to Headline Auction at Christie’s New Asia HQ
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The Great Depression in Europe: Here’s What Happened
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The Beautiful Ludlow Typography Specimen Books c. 1958
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Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
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Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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Photos of Iggy Pop And The Stooges Playing NYC Club Ungano’s in 1970
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In August 1970, American photographer Bud Lee (1940-2016) took photographs of Iggy Pop and the Stooges performing at brothers Nick and Arnie Ungano’s basement club on New York’s West 70th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues. The ban were celebrating the release of their...
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8 Unsolved Disappearances From History
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Why do People Believe Britons are Descended from Israelites?
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Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism
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Dr Alun Withey
Are Beards Over? A Historical Perspective.
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Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around 2014, gaining popularity...
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What Was the Gran Sasso Raid?
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A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
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The Dark History of Australia’s Blackbirding
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‘Rites of Passage’ by Judith Flanders review
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World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953)
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
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The Winter War: The Soviet Invasion of Finland
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Disciple of Jesus Christ: Who Was Judas Iscariot?
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The French Monarchy: From Clovis to the Capetians
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8 Most Divisive President Elections in US History
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‘The Writers’ Castle’ by Uwe Neumahr review
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How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders
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From 1885 to the 1970s, Edward Sankey and his sons, Raymond and Eric Sankey, photographed the north-west of England. Based at their studio on Duke Street, in Barrow-in-Furness, they captured everyday and extraordinary events. Their archive of more than 10,000 photographs is now...
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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What Are the Five French Republics?
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10 Incredible Artworks by Félicien Rops
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Why Early Modern Books Are So Beautiful
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
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What Is Thatcherism?
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The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III
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The Luftwaffe Under the Nazis: A Formidable Air Foe & Force
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Jansenism: The 17th Century Heresy That Divided the Church
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What Was Négritude?
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7 Lost Books of the Christian Bible: What Were They About?
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The History of Chocolate: A Treat with a Dark Side?
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What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland?
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Belief in the Ancient World
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Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981
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The Image in The Machine: Typewriter Art in the 1960 and 1970s
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
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In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact
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St. Nicholas
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And "Against Recentism," while we're at it.
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What Impact Did Realism Have on Society?
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Magritte Sets $121 Million Auction Record
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Cruising New York City With Video Blogger Nelson Sullivan In The 1980s
“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos...
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“Thanks to his scrupulous attention, Nelson’s left behind a treasure trove of late-night videos that, even more than the Warhol diaries, trenchantly capture the party years in all their gleeful decadent fun.” – Michael Musto on New York City video blogger (vlogging) Nelson...
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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JamesHoare
Mon, 10/07/2024 - 08:29
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‘A Great Disorder’ by Richard Slotkin review
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New Hampshire’s Art Museum to Permanently Close
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Who Were the Buffalo Soldiers?
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Aristotle on Luck
Do You Feel Lucky?
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Benito Mussolini: This Was the Life of Il Duce
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Norse Pantheon: 10 Fascinating Gods and Goddesses
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The textile trade of pre-colonial Africa
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In December 1633, a Dutch ship reached the fort of Nassau on the ‘Gold Coast’ (modern Ghana), carrying more than 6,000 pieces of cloth which was to be exchanged for gold.
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The Future of US Elections: Potential Changes and Emerging Issues
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Aristotle’s Rhetoric: A Brief Overview
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The heroic age in Darfur: a history of the pre-colonial kingdom of Darfur ca. 1500-1916.
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The political marginalization of the Darfur region since the creation of colonial Sudan has resulted in one of the continent's longest-standing conflicts, which threatens to destroy the country's social fabric and its historical heritage. Just as the plight of modern Darfur...
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